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| Monday, July 17, 2006 |
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Well, *that* didn't work. 
| | We're hanging with family at three different beach houses, and Verizon's signal on the Treo at each of them ranges from nothing to one little bar. I can get on the Web with the Treo if I walk down to the ocean, about 300 feet from the deck of the beach house where we're staying. Sometimes I can get it from the deck itself, if I wander around mumbling curses and appeals to deities. |
| | This isn't true just for my Treo. There are three other Verizon phones here at the beach, and all of them are useless. As my cousin Kelly puts it, "I get a signal if I stand hip deep in low tide." |
| | I'm not sure if this constitutes bait-and-swith by Verizon, but it's certainly a wait-and-bitch situation for customers. |
| | Meanwhile the old nearly crapped-out Cingular phone, a Sony-Ericsson T637, rocks. The signal is a full five bars, everywhere around. |
| | Unfortunately, I wiped out the settings for getting on the Net via the T637's bluetooth/GPRS setup, so I stayed off the air through the whole weekend, plus this morning. Now it's 12:18pm, and I'm at the Flying Pig coffee house, which has free wi-fi and great service. Much appreciated. |
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